Lock It Up

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squeeeee!

f6ydratfugiboj!!! AUGH

jEPH

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

ok.. alright... I'm genuinely coming around. I really didn't find the idea of Faye being actually attracted to Bubbles to be believable at first. But now, none of Fayes responses here seem out of character; she's slowly fallen in like with bubs. I even like the idea of them just being Ernie and Bert for a while;l dating and sex aren't as important as companionship when going through hardship and assaulting new horizons. I have a feeling this is as much progress as we are going to get for now. the story will veer away to another character pair; probably fucking marigold. If we are lucky its a hannelore adventure arc! She joins the One Piece crew and makes Monkey D Luffy the pirate king in a unique crossover arc! Then she joins Anny and Kat in Gunnerkrig Court and wins Station a soul in exchange for some unique arcane information about coyote. "Scene cuts to Hannelore, Station, Jones and Coyote playing poker... Robot is dealing and Shadow is serving drinks."

So I take it that I'm the only person who interpreted Faye's last panel glance toward the door as ever so slightly sly, as in "We should lock up so that no one can accidentally interrupt us if the conversation continues down this path"?

Quality trolling Jeph, beautiful work :)

I'm guessing that this will be the last strip of this arc. It seems a good place to stop (although I thought that about Friday's strip so YMMV is definitely a rule here).

Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggg! Torture, this is!

*squees*

I wonder (fables aside for a moment) if faye could do a sufficiently good impression of bubbles that she gets a square balloon?

i always forget that the AIs have more robot-like voices, even though it's obvious given their speech bubbles

Now I will look forward to about a month of strips focusing on other characters (main plot: Will Emily find her lost sock?). After that, a casual shot of Bubbles and Faye making out in the background, and a bit later she will talk to Marten and make an offhand remark about how they got together last week. We will never be told the details.

That second to last panel! So freaking cute.

Take panel four, print it out at life-size, wallpaper my house with it.

So much foreplay.

*fweeeeeeee*

so tease, much cute

Oh merciful heaven! How long can Faye maintain this level of obliviousness? Those two are so cute and in love and they're unwilling (Bubbles) or too unaware (Faye) to do anything!

First time we've seen Faye blush so that's some progress.

OUR SHIIIIIIIIP!!!!

They need a third party who is aware of the situation, possibly Marten, to casually suggest that, in order to keep people from trying to fix them up with "other people", they use each other as a relationship "beard". They can tell anybody trying to matchmake that they are in a sufficiently satisfying arrangement with the other. This has the double benefit of being true and vague enough that if they decide to "adjust" the arrangement they can do so without changing the statement. Anyone asking for details can be told to bugger off because it's none of their business.

Nyyyyyyahhhhh it's so close to happening.... So close

OH COME ON

I mean, if they never get any closer than this, I'm okay with platonic shy cuddle-friends. They even sleep in the same room as each other! BEST PROTECTIVE PUNCH-FWBs!

Oh god, so many feels.

The S.S. Faybles is fully crewed and provisioned. Just waiting for Capt. Jacques to issue orders to set sail.

Nope, sorry, nothing to ship here. Move along, move along.

JEPH. If you pull a Lucy and take the football away at the last second I'm going to write *really* bad #Faybles fanfic and spread it all over the internet... and sign your name to it. Totally gonna do it. Yup. Definitely. Totally.

Totally dig this where this story is going, but, here comes the Faye on Bubbles rule 34 garbage.

Clearly, these two ain't seeing it unless one of them takes out a full page ad on the front page of a daily newspaper. <a href="http://danarchy.youfailit.net/Spiderman/spidey15.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://danarchy.youfailit.net/Spiderman/spidey15.jpg</a> Well, that or until Claire gets wind of things. :)

Actually, I'm against Faye and Bubs getting together. Romance is not the only way to have a close and rewarding relationship with another sentient life form... and sexy times is not the only way to escalate intimacy. I would personally prefer the variety of seeing how their relationship evolves (both as emotional support and business partners) WITHOUT throwing the standard and somewhat predictable "oh we're dating now" into the mix.

Haha so already a cute couple

I guess this reinforces for me that they both somewhat realise they're already in a relationship, but it might take some time figuring it out. Till then Faye is probably going to be taking a few cold showers, and Bubs might FWEE a bit.

just fucking do it already if we could post gifs i would post the "get on with it" gif from monty python

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Okay now your just fucking with us.

GODDAMMIT JEPH

Jeph, why do you hate us

OH MY GOD. Faye you are SO gay for her! Recognize that already!

I swear, if we get to Friday and they still haven't kissed...

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